Gorky Park
Gorky Park Roller Coaster
Location	Moscow, Russia
Website	Gorky Park
Opened	1928
Area	300 acres (1.2 km²)

Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure is an amusement park in Moscow, named after Maxim Gorky.

[edit] Park History

Gorky Park was opened in 1928 and is located at Krymsky Val and situated just across the Moskva River from Park Kultury Metro Station. The park was created by the amalgamation of the extensive gardens of the old Golitsyn Hospital and the Neskuchny Palace and covers an area of 300 acres (1.2 km²) along the river. ^[1]

[edit] Gorky Park Now

Gorky Park has children’s play areas, fun fairs, various amusement rides, an enormous Ferris wheel, and one of the mockups (test units) from the Buran space shuttle program, which allows children to take part in "the Cosmic Experience". During the winter the footpaths flood over and freeze, which allow ice-skating around the park. ^[1]

[edit] List of Attractions

Alpine Slide, Virtual Capsule, Bumper Boats, Batman, Rabid Mill, Big Ben, Break Dance, Buran, Waltz, The Playground, Eurostar, Karting, Carpet Plane, Condor, Dream Ship, Laser Shooting Q-ZAR, Music Express, Niagara, Orbit, Brave Captain, Cave Horror, Trip to Africa, Winning Games, Rally, Silver Mine, Serpentine, Fairy Tale Train, Speedway, Super Bowl, Tire, Fantastic Voyage, Fly Machine, Chain Carousel and the Black Hole. ^[2]

Arctic motifs

Amusement rides and the Buran space shuttle test vehicle.

An installation of the annual ice-sculpture competition.

[edit] Miscellaneous

• The park was written of in the novel Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith. It was later made into a film with the same name.
• The German metal band, Scorpions, achieved great success with their popular single, "Wind of Change", which references "Gorky Park" ^[3] in light of the sociopolitical changes taking place in a post Cold War era in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s.
• A Russian Rock-n-Roll band Gorky Park is named after the park.
• "Gorky Park" is mentioned in the song Vodka ^[4] by Morena, which represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gorky Park

• Official Gorky Park website
• Official Gorky Park website translated with Google Translate
• A photo gallery

Coordinates: 55°43′53″N 37°36′14″E / 55.73139°N 37.60389°E / 55.73139; 37.60389